Religion is a great topic to develop and more when you compare and contrast them. Everyone has different views based on their belief. In this essay Im going to compare two basic religions that are still use in today’s society after so many years of development. These religions are buddhism and christianity. Considered to be the two great distinctive religions of the world‚ both Buddhism & Christianity today covers a large section of the world population with numerous similarities and differences
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Tirthankar stands for "fordmaker" meaning that he is "the founder of a "Tirth" which is a community of Jains which acts as a "ford" across the "river of human misery"." (http://en.wikipeda.org/wiki/Tirthankar). A Tirthankar is a person who refrains from asceticism‚ or refraining from worldly pleasures‚ reaches enlightenment or perfect knowledge. After accomplishing enlightenment‚ his mission is to shows way to enlightenment to others. Once the Tirthankar has reached that enlightenment his knowledge is pure
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Thecla The character of Thecla first appears in the late-second century text the Acts of Paul and Thecla Briefly‚ Paul is depicted as preaching a message of chastity in Iconium‚ which causes Thecla to become enamored with his words and to abandon her responsibilities to her mother and her fiancé in order to follow Paul. She overcomes two persecutions by miraculous means‚ eventually baptizing herself in a pool of ravenous seals that are miraculously killed by a lightning bolt before they can
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many in the faith‚ which caused many believers desiring a more pious Christian faith to flee into the desert to “protest the church’s compromise and to start a countermovement of discipleship.” The believers who wanted to practice uninhibited asceticism sans the temptations of societal evils decided to practice the ascetic life in the desert‚ which offered them an environment that not only allowed them to surrender themselves to God but made surrender necessary due to the harshness of the desert
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Immanuel Kant Summery: There are two faculties of the mind: theoretical reason and practical reason. Theoretical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What can I know?"‚ while practical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What ought I to do?". For Kant‚ practical reason issues a duty to respect its law. That is‚ morality is not rooted in consequences (consequentialism)‚ but rather in sheer duty (deontological ethics). For Kant‚ practical reason issues a "categorical imperative"
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development of what he terms the capitalist “spirit”. Weber explains the centrality of the work ethic to the religious ideals of the Protestant sects. At the crux of his argument‚ Weber associates this work ethic‚ viewed as a kind of inner-worldly asceticism‚ as directly causal to the domination of capitalist society in England‚ Europe‚ and America. He uses tools such as statistics on higher education and economic success(p.44)‚ and linguistic analysis of the Protestant versus Catholic doctrines. There
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up the pleasures of the palace to seek the true purpose of life‚ Siddhartha first tried the path of severe asceticism‚ only to abandon it after six years as a futile exercise. He then sat down in yogic meditation beneath a banyan tree until he achieved enlightenment. He was known henceforth as the Buddha‚ or "Enlightened One." His is the Middle Path‚ rejecting both luxury and asceticism. Buddhism proposes a life of good thoughts‚ good intentions‚ and straight living‚ all with the ultimate aim
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What Unifies Major World Religions? “Every major religion of the world has similar ideals of love‚ the same goal of benefiting humanity through spiritual practice‚ and the same effect of making their followers into better human beings.” This quote by the Dalai Lama was in response to a book written by Jeffrey Moses‚ titled Oneness: Great Principles Shared by all Religions. The book talks about sixty five different principles that most major religions share. All religions sets guide lines
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and rain‚ day and night‚ for 37 years. Living mostly in the fifth century‚ he was highly influential in convincing Pagans and Jews to convert to Christianity (1). After his death‚ he became a prime example influencing Monk’s in the practice of asceticism. His extreme examples of fasting‚ self-torture and prayer were all examples of how to become closer to the Biblical Lord. Simeon was born approximately 389 CE to a middle class family in a small village in northern Syria. His family owned a
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stage of adolescence come big physical changes happen.It has 5 important stages:pre-adolescence‚earlier‚middle‚late adolescence.Every stage causes different crises‚And the mos important are: the crisis (confusion) of identity‚ crisis of authority‚ asceticism‚ hipokondria and sexuality crisis. Adolescence as a period of human development and it is the creation of modern society‚also its complicated conditions.Begins when the
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